»I'm in love with all the places I will never see, the people who never give up on me, the books I may never read and the songs which express my feelings better than any words ever could. I will always go to bed too late and fall down the rabbit hole and maybe that's exactly how it should be.«

E. Lockhart – We Were Liars“I just to be blond, but now my hair is black. I used to be strong, but now I am weak. I used to be pretty, but now I look sick. It is true I suffer migraines since my accident. It is true I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. You see? Suffer migraines. Do not suffer fools. The word means almost the same as it did in the previous sentence, but not quite. Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that’s not exactly right.”

It’s difficult to talk about this book without going into too much detail because you don’t want to spoil it for anyone. It took a few pages to get into it but after that I couldn’t put it down and read right through it deep into the night. You don’t see the ending coming at all… I was bawling at the end and couldn’t stop thinking about it for days. Definitely a book I’ll need a proper copy of at some point!

The comic parts were okay although I didn’t get why Mina was blond and how exactly her companion now was – the rest wasn’t my cup of tea. The whole thing is just terrible sexualized for no appearent reason.

rating: 2/5

Ursula Poznanski – Erebos“You’re always trying to interfere in my life – and now you’re practically throwing a party, you’re so happy something went wrong for me. Provided of course that someone wasn’t telling you complete and utter rubbish!”

Okay, the ending of this one was a bit weak but still plausible. The strongest aspect truly is Erebos and I enjoyed the parts inside the game the most. Really made you wish it actually existed in the form it was originally intended!

rating: 4/5

Christie Sims, Alara Branwen – Taken by the T-Rex

Read this and the other two for a challenge and hated every single minute of reading it. At some point I actually went back to the start and started counting how often the phrase “big lizard” (48 times) was used to at least have some fun with this.

rating: 1/5

Christie Sims – Mating in Flight

Slightly better written than the T-Rex one but still not very inspiring…

rating: 2/5

Christie Sims – Stealing from a Dragon

Probably the best written of this three – still not my cup of tea though.

rating: 2/5

Bill Willingham; Phil Jimenez – Fairest, Vol. 1: Wide Awake
“I never met the real you – only a monster who’d lost herself in a dream.”

Maybe I’d like it better if I had read the series before this one as well but as a first it wasn’t really good. I liked the illustrations but the characters were a bit flat and the story took very long to get started.

rating: 2/5

Sylvia Plath – The Colossus and Other Poems“No pit of shadow to crawl into,And his blood beating the old tattooI am, I am, I am.”

I like a lot of Plath’s work but definitely not this collection. There’s not a single entire poem I enjoyed or even felt like I understood – actually most of the metaphors and pictures completely remained riddles to me.

The story of this book sucked me in and I really wanted to know how it would end. You start with both feet on the ground, not questioning reality, and then the world gets turned upside down and you just can’t be sure anymore. This book would have had a much better rating though if Pessl would have known when to stop. The whole last act with the island pretty much ruined it for me… yeah, it implies that Scott is indeed in a Cordova movie but it takes too much mystery about the man away. Why not end it at the point where Scott supposedly starts to get a grip on his life again and maybe having a final scene which somehow implies how wrong he is about that? Also I kind of expected Ashley to not truly be dead nearly the entire novel… and wanted to actually watch a few of Cordova’s movies, they sounded all very intriguing!